WOODING, SAMUEL DAVID

WOODING, SAMUEL DAVID (SAM). Jazz pianist (17 June 1895 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). He began his professional career about 1912 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. In 1914 he went to New York, where he played piano for Madison Reid . After service in the United States Armed Forces during World War I, where he played in an army band, he organized his Society Syncopators. He played residencies with his group in Atlantic City, Detroit, Michigan, and New York during the years 1919-25...